Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema
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| Dawn of the Dead, or Dead Mall Blues | 30 Oct 2026 | 01:51:51 | |
WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH It's our first ever listener-selected Halloween Special! And you where all kind enough to gift us a classic: George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. The cult hit and canonical classic that launched an entire sub-genre of horror, spawned every "what would you do in the zombie apocalypse" conversation, pioneered shocking new gore and make-up effects, and conveys a satirical, apocalyptic vision of social collapse that feels as salient now as it did in 1978. Join us as we discuss the film's production, themes, legacy, Romero's amiable and improvisational directorial style, ponder the rise and fall of the Shopping Mall in culture, and weigh our own options for when the dead inevitably rise to consume the living. Check out this circa-2001 Making-Of on Youtube. Please consider donating to these organizations:
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| [Teaser] "They don't make them like they used to..." | 23 Oct 2026 | 00:06:37 | |
A snippet from Stu and Nicole's wide-ranging conversation about Bram Stoker's Dracula, the horny, weird, baroque and lavishly over the top 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. To hear the rest, and all our other exclusive episodes, simply click here and support us on Patreon! | |||
| Five Nights at Freddy's, or Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse | 15 Oct 2026 | 01:51:48 | |
In 2014 a weird Christian guy made a videogame about spending the night with scary haunted animatronics. What followed was a cultural sensation, with a boatload of sequels and an increasingly weird and esoteric lore. Did you know that the animatronics are concealing the corpses of murdered children? Do you know about Golden Freddy? Did they somehow succeed at fitting this all into a Blumhouse movie? Follow along as Cole, with the help of our Discord community, leads us on a journey into lore, madness, and child murder. Also we talk about the movie. An extra special thanks to our $10-tier Executive Producers: Terri Edwards-Nixon, Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Ronny Gardocki and Owen2. Please consider donating to these organizations:
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| [TEASER] Coming out of my well and I've been doing just fine | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:08:39 | |
A sample from our discussion of Gore Verbinski's The Ring, the American remake of the 1998 Japanese film 'Ring', the first of a wave of such remakes and the only one that's any good. Click here to support us on Patreon and listen to the full episode! | |||
| Godzilla Minus One, or Less Than Zero | 02 Oct 2026 | 02:11:18 | |
Atomic Horror month concludes on Marvelous! with the most recent and so-far most lucrative Godzilla movie of all time: Godzilla Minus One. Champion fourth mic Seqarts joins us to discuss the reasons for the films massive success, its flaws and virtues, where it fits into the wider canon, discuss its political themes and to explore the the prismatic ways in which it reflects the various concerns, anxieties and narratives of Japanese culture past and present. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. Please support Nikkei Progressives as well as consider donating to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [TEASER] Godzilla has been my best friend since I was a little girl | 25 Sep 2026 | 00:05:54 | |
A sample from our newly released Patreon episode on Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film "Godzilla". Listen to the full episode and more by supporting us on Patreon! | |||
| [TEASER] Live Nicole Reaction | 21 Sep 2026 | 00:03:12 | |
For our movie and MCU news catch-up bonus episode, Cole reads out the leaked Avengers: Doomsday plot synopsis to Nicole and Stu. Nicole reacts very, very badly.
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| Oppenheimer, or Merry Christmas Mr. Nolan | 18 Sep 2026 | 02:34:39 | |
This week on Marvelous!, the second and inarguably superior half of the monocultural fugue state that was Barbenheimer summer: a three hour biopic-cum-courtroom drama that's partly in black and white about the world's most consequential product launch. And it had (almost) as much pull as girl toy IP. In the long awaited return of Christopher Nolan to the podcast, Nicole, Stu, and Cole dissect the figurative box office bomb that is Oppenheimer. Topics include Oppie's autistic rizz, the synthesis between Nolan and American Prometheus, the memetic appeal of Barbenheimer, the woman question, and how we begrudgingly have to thank James Woods for making this happen. And tune in Sunday to the Patreon for a brand new special Marvelous! report on the state of cinema, MCU news, and the angriest Nicole has ever gotten at anything in the history of the podcast. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: | |||
| [TEASER] Israeli Entertainment (feat. Liz) | 11 Sep 2026 | 00:05:30 | |
Fun fact: not only was the 1987 He-Man movie Masters of the Universe largely responsible for bankrupting the already flailing Israeli cultural institution that was Cannon Films, but it was also directed by an (alleged) serial gay pedophile. Support us on Patreon if you'd like to hear the rest of | |||
| Barbie, or Life in Plastic | 04 Sep 2026 | 02:38:57 | |
"It’s about a fucking doll!" - Amy Taubin This week, the Marvelous! crew sets their sights on the hot pink pop cultural phenomenon that is Barbie, a billion-plus dollar (post-)feminist object/Mattel rebrand strategy grappling with the fraught, symbolic legacy of the world's most famous doll by giving her a kitschy existentialist crisis. We talk about how the film's priorities as an officially licensed commercial product limit its purportedly feminist politics, its 2016-internet conception of masculinity, how camp aesthetics and self-effacing humor disavow the specter of capitalism, and think a little too deeply about the metaphysical relationship between Barbie Land and the real world. Plus, Nicole gives a lesson on post-feminism, commodified Girl Power, and how Barbie signaled a consumerist end to Fourth Wave feminism as a meaningful political project. (This episode is dedicated to the life, memory, and herstory of famed Barbie-critic and CIA asset Gloria Steinem.) "After 'Barbie,' Mattel is Raiding its Entire Toybox" by Alex Barasch "This Barbie Has Melancholy Feminism: Framing Empowerment and Grievable Lives" by Scarlette Nhi Do "#Feminism: The Internet’s Facilitation of the Fourth Wave” by Nicole Veneto Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert Feeling Cynical About Barbie by Broey Deschanel An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| The Flash, or The Flush | 20 Aug 2026 | 01:59:45 | |
The flailing DCEU runs at light-speed into a brick wall with this misbegotten penultimate pre-reboot entry. Ugly and unfunny, even the film's sole interesting element - Ezra Miller's weird and hysterical performance - is ultimately abandoned for Batman nostalgia and a failed, flat attempt to launch an (immediately recast) Supergirl. It's a bad, bad movie, but at least we had a lot of fun talking about it. Plus: Cole's pot-history of the character and defense of the CW tv show! An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations:
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| Blue Beetle, or The Carapax View (feat. Chris Bell) | 06 Aug 2026 | 02:07:48 | |
As the DC Extended Universe nears its inevitable reboot, filmmaker Chris Bell (Failed State, Attention Shoppers, The Winds That Scatter) joins the pod to dissect one of its last offerings in the form of Blue Beetle, a comparatively decent entry from a franchise that's still got another very expensive bowel-movement or two waiting for us. We once again debate the merits and limitations of Hollywood progressivism with this rather earnest if not by-the-numbers origin story for the Jaime Reyes incarnation of Blue Beetle, who according to SOME third mics is more popular than Iron Man if you're going by children's' lunchboxes. More importantly, what is a Blue Beetle and what's his relationship to the School of the Americas? Why did it take until the DCEU was about to be scrapped for parts for a Latino-led superhero movie to get released? Do Toyotas speak to an authentic Latino cultural experience? Did mother Susan Sarandon relish the opportunity to play her mortal enemy Hillary Clinton?
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| [TEASER] Smallville Season 2 with Cole and Seqarts | 30 Jul 2026 | 00:05:23 | |
A sample from our latest patrons-exclusive TVChat, wherein Cole and our long time friend and recurring guest Seqarts continue their retrospective on the 2000s superhero-monster-of-the-week-teen-melodrama Smallville. Support us on Patreon if you'd like to hear the rest and other exclusive episodes! | |||
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, or The Third Greatest Animated Film Ever Made | 24 Jul 2026 | 02:58:03 | |
... according to Letterboxd, anyway, but your pals at Marvelous! aren't quite so sanguine. From Phil Lord's tyrannical rule of production to the tedium of infinite Spiders-Men and the so-facile-it-might-be-accidental queer representation — we dig into all the things that keep this (sometimes good) film from achieving the greatness its reputation implies. For this episode we relied especially on the following articles:
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| Fast X, or The Wheels Come Off | 09 Jul 2026 | 01:49:21 | |
After concluding our long patreon-exclusive retrospective on the series, we arrive at last back in 2023 with Fast X, the bloated, messy, chaotic beginning of the end for the 'Fast Family'. Along the way we discuss Justin Lin's sudden exit, too much bluescreen, Vatican pinball, Jason Momoa as an evil gay guy, sticking Michelle Rodriguez in a concrete room for most of the movie, alternate storylines, Vin Diesel's social media carnival barking, giant ego and allegations -- it all comes to a big, bald head here with the penultimate installment of this strange, misshapen, yet often lovable mutant of a movie series. Note: We relied heavily on the books Fast and Furious Franchising by Dan Hassler-Forest and Welcome to the Family by Barry Hertz to inform our research and discussion of this series. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, or Troll's Remorse | 26 Jun 2026 | 02:31:48 | |
Cole's back and they've learned the secret of the orient: not being that mad anymore. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [TEASER] Oh... Canada. (feat. Remember Shuffle) | 18 Jun 2026 | 00:06:17 | |
Fellow Canucks Remember Shuffle join Stu and a hopelessly outnumbered Nicole for a lively and in-depth discussion about Blackberry, and the seething neurotic resentment that comes from living in the Great White North. Subscribe to the Patreon to hear the full episode and more! And while your at it, please support the Shuffle Bois. | |||
| Air, or Soleless | 12 Jun 2026 | 01:45:39 | |
Cole was too busy watching actual basketball, so Nicole and Stu are left to fend for themselves in alien territory as we enter the worlds of shoes and sports with the Affleck/Damon brand-biopic. Is it a fleeting microgenre, or are products the new comic books? We discuss what makes the film hollow and irritating, the limits of slipping 'subversive' messages into hyper-corporate movies, the odd way it handles Michael Jordan as a figure, it's success with xillennials, endless 80s nostalgia, and how the film doubles as a pitch for Affleck and Damon's revenue-sharing based studio 'Artists Equity'. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [TEASER] They Got Him | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:04:32 | |
Before we (Nicole and Cole) fulfill their contractually obligated second Patreon Raffle pick on Trần Anh Hùng's under-appreciated neo-noir I Come With the Rain, we pay our respect to Stu, who at the time caught the hantavirus from that cruise. Remember when that happened? Support us on Patreon to hear the full episode and much more! | |||
| [TEASER] Unidentified Traumatic Object (feat. Jane Altoids) | 05 Jun 2026 | 00:04:41 | |
An excerpt from our conversation with Jane Altoids about Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, adapted from the novel by Scott Heims. Support us on Patreon to hear the full episode and much more! | |||
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie, or Realistic Panic Attacks (feat. Kyle Amato) | 29 May 2026 | 01:55:11 | |
Boston Hassle film critic, animation enthusiast, and co-host of Hawke Cast Kyle Amato joins Stu, Nicole, and Cole to dissect the second highest grossing toy commercial of 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It's your stock standard low-effort kiddie fodder reskinned for Nintendo IP and jam packed with as many Easter eggs and Top 40 needledops as algorithmically possible. If animation actually wants to be cinema then Illumination should hire actual some real European perverts for a change. Follow Kyle on the Projects Substack and read his reviews for Boston Hassle. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, ultimatetotoro, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [TEASER] Twenty Years of Failed American Akiras | 23 May 2026 | 00:03:30 | |
As of 2025, Warner Brothers officially lost the rights to make a live action feature film adaptation of Akira, ending over 20 years of a development hell for something nobody wanted or asked for. But god, did they try. Nicole takes Stu on a deep dive through each and every painfully misguided iteration of what thankfully will never be. | |||
| [TEASER] The Anime of Anime | 22 May 2026 | 00:02:58 | |
On the eve of having to review The Super Mario Brothers Movie, the gang decides to find reprieve in what is possibly the greatest technical and craft achievement in the history of animation: Akira. Support us on Patreon to hear the full episode and much more! | |||
| Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, or Merciful Competence | 15 May 2026 | 02:07:59 | |
A long, long time ago, in a remote, wild and mystical land called Minnesota, a bunch of nerds with polyhedral dice decided to play-act Lord of the Rings using the rules and miniatures from a medieval war game. That game became a product, that product became a brand, and that brand became popular with women, so they made a pretty decent movie out of it. We watched that movie, and had a nice chat about what sets it a step above its IP franchise film peers. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [TEASER] Arthurian Hitlerism | 08 May 2026 | 00:06:15 | |
At the outset of a nearly 3 hour discussion about mythic cuckoldry and shit looking cool as hell in John Boorman's Excalibur, Cole teaches Nicole and Stu about an even stupider king of ethnonationalist beliefs.
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| Shazam: Fury of the Gods, or Blunder the Dome | 01 May 2026 | 01:44:18 | |
We enter the home stretch of the pre-Gunn DCU with Shazam: Fury of the Gods, a confused and inert mess of glop, nonsense and awful dialogue anchored by the unbearable anti-charisma of future Jesuslop washup Zachary Levi. Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu are wasted. Rachel Zegler needs a new agent; Diedrich Bader gets killed and nobody seems to notice; and the barely-explored villain scheme is stolen, inexplicably, from The Simpsons Movie. Needless to say, none of the teasers for future 'Shazam' installments will be paying off. Ever. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| [Teaser] Bride of Chucky | 24 Apr 2026 | 00:05:26 | |
BREAKING NEWS: Nicole Queens out!!!!! Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| M3GAN, or MUMSN3T (feat. Evan) | 17 Apr 2026 | 01:57:21 | |
As the gang ventures into uncharted territory in industrial scale genre filmmaking, Nicole taps in her beau Evan to help talk about one of Blumhouse's biggest hits, M3GAN, the PG-13 killer AI doll movie/meme generator. It's a manufactured, half-baked horror-comedy about the dangers of letting children have too much screentime, so transparently desperate to launch its titular character into the pantheon of queer horror icons that it had to start beef with notable queer horror elder Chucky and do a stupid TikTok dance to make hundreds of millions of dollars from undiscerning audiences. The only difference between Kevin Feige and Jason Bloom is that one is better at money management. "Film Review: 'M3GAN' — Child’s Slay" by Nicole "The story behind M3GAN's iconic TikTok dance sequence" by James Grebey "Get Out producer booed off stage at Israeli film festival for criticising Trump" by Sam Wolfson An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, or The Kang that Shouted At Women At The Heart of The World | 02 Apr 2026 | 02:35:36 | |
Witness a failure so epic, it accidentally made the show good. It all goes wrong here. "I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel" as told to Chris Lee, Vulture "‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’" by Chris Lee, Vulture "Jonathan Majors Had a History of Abuse in Relationships, Women Say" by Melena Ryzik, New York Times An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
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| TEASER: Patron Raffle winner delivers punishment (Justice League x RWBY feat. Ty) | 27 Mar 2026 | 00:03:16 | |
The first of our two (long story) Patron Raffle winners passes judgement on Marvelous! and forces us to watch the direct-to-streaming two part OVA Justice League x RWBY. Ty from TGOFV bravely joins us, to salvage the episode, ask the big questions, and talk about comic books. Want to hear more? Want a chance to pick an episode (or inflict punishment)? Subscribe to our Patreon now! | |||
| BONUS: Smallville Chat Season 1 with Cole and Seqarts | 23 Mar 2026 | 01:46:14 | |
Cole and beloved friend of the show Seqarts discuss the first season of "Smallville", The WB's successful attempt to replace Buffy with a Superman prequel show about hunky teen Clark Kent and his best friends: Lex Luthor and the chick from NXIVM. Discussions of future seasons will appear exclusively on the Patreon. Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| Him, or Winning the Touchdown (feat. Gus) | 20 Mar 2026 | 01:37:09 | |
Gus from the very funny podcast Most Controversial joins Stu and Cole to discuss the strange Jordan Peele produced sports horror film "Him", a surreal saga about professional football and the relationship between the greatest quarterback of all time and his up-and-coming protege and rival. Our discussions include the many themes the film gestures at, it's ability or inability to corral them into a coherent thesis, where it is and isn't trying to be funny, and the ways in which it fundamentally misunderstands football and the particular psychopathology of our era's greatest athletes. Support Most Controversial on Patreon Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| [TEASER] Wuthering Your Heights at the Theater | 12 Mar 2026 | 00:05:52 | |
Before delving into a 90 minute bitch sesh on Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights", Cole and Nicole share some details on their respective theatrical experiences being surrounded by BookTok fans and captive boyfriends on all sides. Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| Dr. No, or Dr. I Told Her Twice | 08 Mar 2026 | 01:34:22 | |
While Nicole's away, the boys laze about for Queen and Country. Witness the lackadaisical start for everyone's favorite series of Spy "Action" Thrillers as we dive into Dr. No. Duh duh duh-duh da duh indeed. Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| Sonic the Hedgehog 2, or Derailing at the Speed of Sound (feat. Andy) | 06 Mar 2026 | 01:34:57 | |
Wrapping up our trip through the 2022 blockbuster landscape, returning guest/friend of the pod/Sonic autist of note Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) from Those Good Old Fashioned Values joins Nicole and Cole for what's supposed to be an episode about Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We really were going to try to stretch out a mediocre video game movie for children and their ironically detached millennial parents into a 90-120 minute conversation, accounting for at least 45 minutes of derailments (as to be expected). But then Paramount and the Ellison crime family colluded with Trump's ROG (Reddit Occupied Government) to expand their slopaganda reich and successfully win the bid for ALL OF Warner Brothers, consolidating a vast chunk of American media under the control of an eyebrow-less failed-actor whose tech-billionaire daddy footed the bill for a movie studio as consolation for Flyboys eating shit at the box office. Plus, more Ken Penders talk and Live Reacts to Jim Carrey's new face. Tickets and schedule for the Boston Underground Film Festival at Brattle (and Coolidge) Theater An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley, and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| [TEASER] Pimp Your Wife | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:06:11 | |
While Nicole and Cole wait for Stu to fix his internet connectivity issues so they can all finally talk about Blade, they venture into Bow Wow's (formerly "Lil") Wikipedia page and discover the greatest deleted Tweet of all time. Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| The Gray Man, or Sorrow | 20 Feb 2026 | 01:19:43 | |
The Russo brothers are boring, lame guys who make boring, lame movies. The Gray Man, appropriate to it's name, is perhaps the most boring and lame so far. Our suffering is Eternal, but the episode is only 80 minutes.
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| TEASER: Mulholland Drive (feat. Jake Tropila) | 12 Feb 2026 | 00:05:05 | |
Jake Tropila joins us to discuss David Lynch's dark side of the Hollywood dream (within a dream) masterpiece. Would you like to hear more? Support the Marvelous! Patreon to get this and other exclusive episodes in full! | |||
| The Fabelmans, or Live from the Cuck Chair (feat. Aaron from Hit Factory) | 06 Feb 2026 | 02:34:29 | |
Steven Spielberg: whiz kid of New Hollywood, maestro of cinematic spectacle, Lord Emperor of eighties kids nostalgia, and chief architect of the modern blockbuster as we know it . A spectral presence over this podcast, but first and foremost, he's our preeminent child-of-divorce auteur. We're joined by Aaron from Hit Factory to talk The Fabelmans, Spielberg's stunningly revealing work of autofiction mistaken for another navel-gazing piece of Oscar bait. Listen and subscribe to Hit Factory on Patreon An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| [TEASER] The Greatest Trailer Music of All Time | 30 Jan 2026 | 00:07:33 | |
Before delving into the fabled (and shockingly good) Pyun work print cut of Captain America (1990), we revisit Captain America: The First Avenger and give some much needed and deeply reverential space to that one First Avenger trailer with Tool in it. Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| Babylon, or The Ick Factor (feat. Jane Altoids) | 23 Jan 2026 | 02:06:36 | |
Jane Altoids (@staticbluebat) of Pacino Pod joins us to relitigate one of Film Twitter's favorite discourses: is Damien Chazelle's mega-critical and commercial flop Babylon an underrated masterpiece or a heaping pile of elephant shit? Did Babylon deserve to fall or did the guy famously who lost Best Picture to Moonlight make one of the great misunderstood films of the 21st century? Can a straight man (loosely, debatably) adapt Kenneth Anger's tome of gay lies, deceits, and fallacies Hollywood Babylon into what dumb people call a "love letter" to silent cinema? The verdict: Babylon bad, or at the very least a hot mess of ambition, miscasts leads, and tonal whiplash from a director lacking the camp touch and the ability to diagnose where Hollywood evil truly resides. The Radical Stardom of Clara Bow: The First It Girl by Be Kind Rewind Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon by You Must Remember This An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| [TEASER] Speed Racer, or An Assault on Modern Aesthetic (feat. Esther Rosenfield) | 16 Jan 2026 | 00:09:18 | |
Esther Rosenfield joins us to discuss the Wachowski sisters' innovative, stylish 2008 film Speed Racer. Support us on Patreon if you want to hear the full episode plus other exclusive episodes, commentaries and more! | |||
| Morbius, or An Alleged Vampire in Brooklyn | 10 Jan 2026 | 02:32:46 | |
A movie so nice they put it in theaters twice! This week on the pod, Stu, Nicole, and Cole Netscape watched Morbius, the Sony Spider-Man Universe's (sans Spider-Man) follow up entry to Venom: Let There Be Carnage and a multi-million dollar vanity project for notoriously Method actor and (ALLEGED PLEASE DON'T SUE US) pedophile Jared Leto. You know its fucking terrible. Link to join the still active Morbius Discord "The Cult of Leto" by Elena Clavarino "'Morbius' Direction Daniel Espinosa on What the Heck Happened Here" by Mike Ryan The very awkward Japanese anime Vtuber interview with Jared Leto An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| [TEASER] Gentrifying Gary, Indiana | 02 Jan 2026 | 00:10:46 | |
On the eve of the new year, the gang must improvise a last minute substitute for our delayed She Is Conann episode... Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| Christmas Special 2025: Gremlins 2: The New Batch | 25 Dec 2025 | 01:50:07 | |
Does a sequel to a Christmas movie count as a Christmas movie? It doesn't matter! Our patrons voted and Joe Dante's anarchic, loony tunes inspired, ahead of it's time fourth wall breaking creature feature was - to our delight - the winner. Join us in a fun, light episode in which we marvel at amazing creature effects, enjoy beloved character actors, share our favorite of the film's (many) gags, and discuss Robert Picardo's (Star Trek: Voyager) consentual-nonconsent relationship with Greta the Gremlin. Thank you all so, so much for listening and supporting the show. We'll see you next year! An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, Jim Locatelli, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Owen2, and Ronnie Gardocki (who I now know is a character from The Shield). If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||
| Avatar: The Way of Water, or Sullys Rizz Together (feat. John DeLillo) | 12 Dec 2025 | 02:08:48 | |
Trending viral number one podcast Marvelous! Or the Death of Cinema trending viral number one movie Avatar: The Way of Water. I see you. Yes, you. Eywa knows what you've done and she's ashamed of you. On christmas no less. Do the Na'vi celebrate christmas? Or is it more of a Life Day situation. Your sins aside, we're back on Pandora with our buddy wandering filmic troubadour John Delillo talking the Way of Water. We all loved it even more than we love the idea of having 9 foot tall blue wives (or husbands). Everyone loves a water level, and James Cameron delivers on a real humdinger of one; It's a glazefest folks. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
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| [TEASER] The Marvelous Masks - Episode 1 | 06 Dec 2025 | 00:03:48 | |
Finally, a new adventure in podcasting and a new frontier of Patreon exclusive bonus content: an RPG. | |||
| Everything Everywhere All at Once, or The Discovery of Multiverse Among the Libs (feat. Alice Moody) | 27 Nov 2025 | 02:04:12 | |
The cynics strike back! Guest Alice Moody joins the gang for the ritual slaughter of a sacred cow, the Widely awarded, critically lauded and enormously popular Everything Everywhere All at Once. Along the way we try and examine what what made this movie so popular, and what puts us in the small minority of people who dislike (or even hate) it - ranging from the writing and production, to it's absurdist and 'metamodern' philosophical underpinnings, and the 'whimsical, sincere' sensibility that seems to rub us the wrong way. Alice's piece, 'Contrarianism Isn't Real'.
An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
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| [TEASER] Lynchian Deep Tissue Massage | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:03:13 | |
Before Nicole and Cole get to discussing Lost Highway (a.k.a. one of the most cursed things ever made) for two hours, Nicole shares a funny Instagram account that made her laugh so hard she drooled on her phone. Support Marvelous! on Patreon to get the full episode and more! | |||
| Black Adam, or To Egg Fu, Thanks for Everything | 14 Nov 2025 | 02:17:42 | |
He was chosen by the Wizard Shazam as a baby boy, messed up his head and even changed the hierarchy of power. More like Brap Adam as the gang dive into The Rock's attempted takeover of Warner Bros. An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: JetChiclete, Isaac, squishward, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2. If you can, please lend some support to these organizations: If you enjoy the show please consider:
Production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Jo Hermeer. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates. | |||